Brno: Team Germany Saturday notes

Row four and five for A1 Team Germany
Willi Weber's A1 Team Germany will start the sprint race from
the fourth row and the main race from the fifth row of the grid for the
second round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at Brno on ...

Row four and five for A1 Team Germany

Willi Weber's A1 Team Germany will start the sprint race from
the fourth row and the main race from the fifth row of the grid for the
second round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at Brno on Sunday.
Nominated driver Christian Vietoris struggled with the traffic on the
circuit and a small set-up problem with his 520 hp race car after having
started the main race in the Netherlands from the front row at the
opening round of the season.

The A1GP race car from A1 Team Germany suffered with oversteer in the
two-part qualifying session for the sprint race. In the first fifteen
minute session Vietoris finished in seventh position after recording a
time of 1m46.173s. In the second part of the session the German improved
by 0.7 seconds to record a time of 1m45.409s. The 18-year old recorded
the seventh fastest time overall from the two opening qualifying
sessions. The driver from Gonnersdorf will therefore start from the
fourth row.

Afterwards the starting grid for the main race was decided in two further
qualifying sessions around the 5.4 kilometre rollercoaster track in the
Czech Republic. In the first part A1 Team Germany set the eleventh place
on used tyres with a lap of 1m47.286s. With new tyres nominated race
driver Vietoris improved to a time of 1m45.765s despite the amount of
traffic on the circuit. As a result, he qualified ninth from a field of
22 nations for the main race.

Christian Vietoris:
"Unfortunately our set-up wasn't quite right today. After everything
went perfectly on Friday and we set the fastest time, we had a lot of
understeer this morning on the used tyres. For this reason we changed the
set-up again before qualifying and, as it turned out, in the wrong
direction. In the two qualifying sections for the sprint race I then had
big oversteer. We then went back with the set-up step-by-step until it
was the same as Friday, but it was only in the fourth session that it was
as it should have been. Unfortunately, I had to overtake several cars on
my last fast lap which cost me a lot of time. Ninth place on the grid for
the main race was the best I could do. It'll be tough to make up places
in the sprint race tomorrow. With a bit of luck a podium finish in the
main race could be possible, because overtaking is possible in Brno."